The Architect

Karl Rove är arkitekten bakom både George W. Bush första vinst 2000 och hans återval 2004. Hos Fox pratar han om varför George Bush lyckades vinna år 2000 när det egentligen var nästan omöjligt. Ekonomin gick bra och hade gått lysande i åtta år. Det mesta var frid och fröjd. Och varför republikanerna gick framåt år i valen till senaten och kongressen.

Han besvarar också kritiken mot valet i Irak på ett bra sätt, det är en häftig bild han målar upp:

"I don't know if you've seen it, but there's one particular thing that caught my eye in the last few days. There is an e-mail going around that shows stills from an unmanned vehicle that was hovering over Baghdad, and they show a street — they're all time-stamped and so forth. You see a street where there's clearly, an explosive device go off, and there are military vehicles there, investigating it.

A short time later, they show the same street. The military vehicles are gone and the street is filled with people, moving through the street. Then they pull back, and there's a scene of a building with a square in the middle of it, with the people milling around. And outside the building snakes a long line of people. And you realize it's a voting place.

The bomb goes off. Ten or 20 minutes later, the street is filled with people, walking bravely to the polls and then standing in line for God knows how long in order to vote. I mean, it was just — it's a powerful image of why freedom is really ingrained in everybody's, you know, sort of DNA. It's why, you know, people don't desire to live in slavery, as the president said. They desire to live in freedom and given a chance, will exercise that freedom in a very powerful way."

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